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Colin Kroll, the CEO, co-founder of HQ Trivia and co-founder of Vine, has died at 34; police source says a drug overdose is suspected — Colin Kroll, the CEO and co-founder of HQ Trivia, has died of an apparent drug overdose ... TMZ has learned. — Law enforcement sources tell TMZ …
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| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Test shows that Android phones like LG G7 ThinQ, OnePlus 6, and Samsung Galaxy S9 and Note 8 can be unlocked via facial recognition using 3D-printed head models — Facial recognition is cropping up everywhere. From shopping malls to the workplace, it's likely something is scanning your face every day.
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Leaked report prepared for Senate analyzes Russian disinformation that supported Trump across millions of posts on YouTube, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, more — The report, a draft of which was obtained by The Washington Post, is the first to study the millions of posts provided …
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
AI Index Report for 2018 shows global growth of the field, a sharp rise in papers published from China, and an increase in VC funding of AI startups — The AI Index 2018 report is out, and if you're interested in AI enough to read this newsletter, you really should read the report through for yourself.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail a phishing campaign by Iran-linked hackers targeting US government officials that bypassed SMS-based 2FA protections in Gmail and Yahoo Mail — Group breaches SMS-protected accounts. It's still testing attacks against 2fa apps. — A recent phishing campaign targeting …
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To increase profits in its retail business, Amazon is asking brands with cheap but heavy or bulky items to change packaging and ship from their own warehouses — Online giant pushes for changes in product packaging, quantities to improve earnings — Amazon.com Inc. AMZN -4.01% … | Paige Leskin / Business Insider: |
Sensor Tower: five out of ten top grossing Apple App Store apps in 2018 are from China, but Netflix holds the top spot with $790M in revenues as of November 30 — - Apps downloaded from the Apple App Store generated hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue this year.
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PlanetScale, a database-as-a-service startup based on tech that helped scale YouTube, exits stealth, has raised $3M seed from prominent tech executives in April — Database legends emerge with a new startup — When the former CTOs of YouTube, Facebook and Dropbox seed fund a database startup … | Cambridge Judge Business School: |
Study: crypto asset service providers have 139M total users and at least 35M identity-verified users whose growth nearly doubled in first three quarters of 2018 — Findings by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance describe the evolution of an industry that saw big growth in 2017.| Bloomberg: |
With EU governments increasingly concerned about Huawei, telecoms including UK's BT, France's Orange, and Deutsche Telekom are reconsidering the use of its gear — - BT and Deutsche Telekom among companies distancing themselves — Europe is the equipment maker's biggest market outside China
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| Ian Hamilton / UploadVR: |
A secured lender is selling off assets, including AR/VR patent portfolio, of Osterhout Design Group, the maker of R-9 and other smartglasses — Osterhout Design Group (ODG) may be dead before mass shipping its R-9 augmented reality glasses, with an asset sale planned for January focused on the AR company's patent portfolio.
Tweets: @jank0, @jbullock85, @mattj_di, and @charliefink
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Tencent's Blade security team finds SQLite vulnerability that affects thousands of apps, including Google Home and Chromium open-source browser engine — New ‘Magellan’ vulnerability will haunt the app ecosystem for years to come. — A security vulnerability in the massively popular …
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